[JohnBooty]

Interesting perspective, thanks.

It's hard to wrap my mind around somebody thinking a stranger is "bragging" or "uncouth" or "sycophantic" because they think their team is smart and fun to work with.

But, I understand that it's a thing.

[jwiz]

To be clear, it's not that you think they are smart and fun to work with, it's that you are saying they are smart and fun to work with.

[JohnBooty]

Saying they are "fun" is obviously my personal opinion. How could it be anything else? Of course it means I think they are fun and not it is a universal truth that everybody thinks my team is fun.

As for smart, aren't most/all engineers "smart?" I hardly thought that calling a group of engineers "smart" would be controversial.